footy legend
David Boyd
Find out the facts before you voice your opinion on how to rate junior talent. Stop rating kids on their last name. The kids you are rating in the halves are falling well short of the mark and the team is getting dominated in the forwards. As to the quote on the fb i know for a fact (not just guessing) he is thought of very highly from the knights and variours other top coaches. The fb has always been a quality half himself but they are grooming him for fb. With his attak he has always calved up the likes of M Dent ie, 140 points in 8 games last year playing in the halves, he was also the only Newcastle kid named in the U/18 NSW Country last year. I have been informed he has just been selected for the AIS U/18 Australian side this year. Let him adapt to this new position as we know he could go back to the halves and change the attacking direction of this side but this is all part of junior development and the Knights are wanting to develop him into a fb.
Who are the halves you are referring too when you said, they are falling well short of the mark ? Walsh and Dent ?
And the FB is a very good player, but atm he isnt playing too his strengths from FB, particulary his running game. IMO they need him at 6 or 7 and dent at 1 or vise verca. Along with Walsh. These three together, would be a nightmare for any side. Assuring that donovan runs the ball from FB. As for the middle, i dont know what to do there.